Immigrant groups, because of innate inferiority or prior cultural disposition, are not capable of self-government and are therefore a danger to our political institutions. A flow of immigrants will result in loss of jobs for Native Americans, and will bring about a lower standard of living as well as in many other situations. In the beginning of the book, Daniels stated the Congress created Chinese Exclusion Act that was signed into law by Chester A. Arthur on May 8, 1882, following revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. Those revisions allowed the U.S. to suspend immigration, and Congress subsequently acted quickly to implement the suspension of Chinese immigration, a ban that was intended to last 10 years. Because Chinese immigrants came to America in large numbers during the 1848 California Gold Rush and in the 1860s when the Central Pacific Railroad recruited large labor groups to build its portion of the transcontinental railroad.
How do geography, location, and movement play major roles in the spread of the Chinese theaters? Rao focused her points on San Francisco Chinatown of the 20s and early 30s, but this alone cannot account for the public face of Chinatown in its entirety across America. However, Rao’s article is a great place to start in this research since other works on different perspectives of Chinatown all point us back to San Francisco, California. As history provides, in the mid-1840's, following defeat by Britain in the first Opium War, a series of natural catastrophes occurred across China resulting in famine, peasant uprisings and rebellions. Understandably, when the news of gold and opportunity in far away Gum San, (Golden Mountain – the Chinese name for America) reached China, many Chinese seized the opportunity to seek their fortune, and a majority ended up on the coasts of California.
At this time the Chinese had imported than it exported, but after the discovery of opium by Westerners, they began to notice the exact opposite. For the first time the Chinese exported more than they imported! After this occurred the current government at the time sought to stop this growing market to regulate the exports and imports back to normal. They proceeded to ban opium markets in the region, which maddened the British since they had already established a prosperous market on the drug. The settling of this financial problem led to the first opium war from 1839 – 1842.
Eventually, due to the growing out-cry and violence stemming from the controversy, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress to limit immigrant labors into the United States. The consistent, constant and progressive bombardment of articles with images of immigrants stealing what the white workingman was fighting were ways to reach common households. Images were means to show the enemy. The illustrations, for the most part, were crude caricature used to attack a race's stereotypes or general idea of what they stood to destroy. The media period before, during, and after the Chinese Exclusion Act in San Francisco was mostly meant to focus on what the immigration of Chinese was doing to the “American” way of
Since it was a federal bill, the south, of course, blocked this bill which escalated the tensions as high as they had ever been before. One year later, 1847, John Calhoun comes out and publicly says that slavery is legal in all territories because they aren’t yet a state. Then later that year, Stephen A. Douglas, an Illinois senator, promoted Lewis Cass’s idea of popular sovereignty. Popular Sovereignty let the people of the territory vote themselves whether slavery should be legal or not. In 1849, the California Gold Rush exponentially populated Northern California.
After the “easy to find” gold was gone mining operations were set up all over the West. These miners dug deep into the ground and found more gold and silver. The mining industry brought two major continuations these Boomtowns gave was then right for women to vote. The states that had given women the right to vote were Wyoming in 1869, Utah 1870, Colorado 1893, and Idaho in 1896. The finding of all these metals was enough to help the United States recover financially from the Civil War, and set up more railroads.
I never knew how much of an impact this immigration stage had on America itself today. In conclusion, The Chinese immigration was huge to America. The Chinese contributed to the production and growth to the industrial era of America. They had a struggle to get themselves fit in, but in the end it was worth it for many reasons. The California Gold Rush was the ticket for the Chinese to even come over here and get a better life and the Chinamen who went through the hardship came out with the best results.
In the mid-nineteenth century, due to the push-pull factors such as economic and political instability in China, and the gold rush in California, thousands of Chinese migrated to the United States. Chinese immigrants came to America in search for jobs and hopes for a better life. Many Chinese immigrant men took upon jobs constructing the Trans-Pacific railroad which was completed in 1869. During the economic crisis that erupted in America shortly after the completion of the railroad, discrimination against Chinese immigrants grew, making it nearly impossible for them to find jobs. To make the situation even worse for the Chinese, California amended its constitution in the late 1870s, which restricted Chinese immigrants from citizenship; in-turn prohibiting anyone from hiring them legally.
The California Dream Ever since the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, began for over a span of 7 years the California Gold Rush. Those seeking freedom from the Midwest and East coast packed up their belongings and brought with them their families to California. Considered as a land wild and raw, California offered to thrill-seekers excitement, adrenaline and the promise that California could and would bring to one the wealth, success, and fortune one wished and sought. Though with more and more migrants and immigrants alike coming to California, the accessibility to one’s own “California dream” became more difficult to achieve. Even though the success rates in California are no longer booming nowadays as it was during the turn of
This election is going to be close and with Hurricane Sandy bringing devastating effects to the East Coast, it could ultimately change the course of the election completely. Throughout the essay I plan on discussing Obama’s political policies, as well as comparing them to his opponent Romney’s. Education: Obama has a clear set mind that to rebuild a broken nation it must first start with educating the nation. He believes that with proper education it will create many jobs and is a gateway to middle- class life. He comments that companies “have to look for workers in China because they couldn't find any with the right skills here at home.” This is why he has been reforming education and helping states develop more comprehensive schools, so that people can learn the right skills needed to get a job.